CLASSIC ROCK TRACKS POLL parking lot tailgate pre-party -- nominations, discussions, parameters, etc.

"Casey Jones" is a classic rock staple too, but I've never heard any of the ones on fcc's list on classic rock radio

I've only heard "Grey," "Casey Jones, "Truckin'," "Uncle John's Band," and yeah, that's it.

Used to hear "Jack Straw" all the time on WXRT in Chicago (years before I knew it was a Dead song), but that's not a "classic rock" station.

Status Quo are definitely definitely UK classic rock. If I manage to vote, I will be attempting to organise my ballot in 'best and most fitting style' - e.g. while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.

another nom: Linda Ronstadt, "When Will I Be Loved"

Only Quo I've heard on US cr radio was "Pictures of Matchstick Men," and only on a deep-cut throwbacky show, and only once.

I wouldn't vote for them because I hate them, but the Quo tracks for this poll would be 'Rockin All Over the World' and 'In the Army Now'. 'Pictures of Matchstick Men' gets play, but I kind of think of it as their pre-CR stage.

But yeah, if you guys want to keep it All American, then go ahea, it makes it simpler. But to me Status Quo completely fit the remit.

*ahead

I've heard Touch of Grey and Box of Rain both recently.

while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.

madness! "good vibrations" may not sound exactly like skynyrd or zep or styx, but it was a spiritual godfather, and template provider, and inspiration to so many of classic rock's most epic moments, the pele to their neymar.

I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.. That's something else I think about with this songs -- they have been on the radio my whole life. How many people's monumental life moments occurred while they were listening to CR radio? Probably a lot! Imagine how much crying these songs have inspired and you will drown in tears. That's poignant. I'll take it.

i love box of rain.

i hate touch of grey

so so so much

also i heard "hot for teacher" yesterday on my way home at like 1am and it sounded atrocious, like the worst song ever. i can't stand the harmonies or basically anything about that song.

:(

I don't feel tardy.

it's not just that song tbh - aside from maybe "ain't talkin bout love" and "panama" i don't think i like any of their songs. the chipmunk harmonies are really grating to me for some reason.

while I think 'Good Vibrations' is amazing, it does not fit my idea of true Classic Rock, so would be unlikely to make the cut.

madness! "good vibrations" may not sound exactly like skynyrd or zep or styx, but it was a spiritual godfather, and template provider, and inspiration to so many of classic rock's most epic moments, the pele to their neymar.

― fact checking cuz, Wednesday, June 25, 2014 10:06 PM (12 minutes ago)

Well, to me classic rock is emphatic head nodding in a car, or air guitaring, or just... choogling away. 'Good Vibrations' doesn't connote any of those activities to me.

I mean, I'm from the UK so haven't had first-hand experience of the true American classic rock stations, so I have to go with my own exposure and gut feelings about this stuff.

xp haha chipmunk harmonies, yes.

I just heard Panama again today. I'm tired of hearing about David Lee Roth's wang, guys.

Had a similar experience with some song I barely know, or don't know at all, by (what turned out to be) Triumph over the weekend. Wretched on every level.

I think if I were to vote for any Van Halen it'd be "Running with the Devil." PANAMA! is really fun in a cartoonish way but it's hard for me to take tit seriously.

emil.y otm about "Good Vibrations" - I love that song, and it might end up on my list, but not near the top. My ballot is heavily weighted by how close songs hew to my own vague ideal of "classic rock."

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"The Lizard King"

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it's hard for me to take tit seriously

My next dn.

If we're talking peacocks, you cannot exclude Bruce

who wants to do the ballot poll

I remember because imo Box of Rain is one of those songs specifically designed to make people cry.

Freaks and Geeks sort of cemented this effect forever for me

I listened to 1984 from beginning to end a couple of weeks ago for the first time since it was new and had some sort of ecstatic experience. It's like a gold played Irish setter that wants to lick your face til your forehead eye gets exposed. Just really love the way that album sounds.

Agreed. Drop Dead Legs, House of Pain and Top Jimmy have all aged really well.

Van Halen's first 4 albums were such transcendent, ecstatic experiences. They reach previously unknown realms of joy and sonic sensuality. Dave's voice is the sound of freedom. [/youtube comment]

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Bowie in Labyrinth >>>>>>>>>>> Plant >>>>>>>>>>> infinity over all other CR Wangs.

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nominating:

rolling stones - street fighting man (which i was reminded of just now when "jumping jack flash" came on the radio and for a few seconds i thought it was "street fighting man," and i see it hasn't been mentioned yet)

my local classic rock radio has also in the past hour reminded me of what a fantastic song eddie money's "baby hold on" is.

PANAMA! is really fun in a cartoonish way but it's hard for me to take tit seriously.

I don't think it takes itself seriously, which is part of the fun. Yeah, Roth's a total buffoon (and the tension between "does he know he's a buffoon?" "no, he doesn't know he's a buffoon" is 90% of his appeal), but Alex' snare sound makes up for so much in their catalog.

I remember Eddie saying in an interview that he wanted VH to mean to kids what Zep did. Well, no. VH doesn't do that. You're fun-time asshole party schmucks. That's what you do.

irl lol @ CR Wangs

I'm pretty stoked to vote for the majority of the Halen singles here, fuckin' love all of those, so much energy. And the backing vocals are perfect, Johnny Fever OTM a decade ago: "The thing Michael Anthony gets the least credit for is his backing vocals... dude sings like a little cherub." Dance the Night Away would be nothing without those elevating ahhh-AHHH-AHHHs, they seem to understand instinctively that when you're a lusty teenager, lust can include the deep-seated but inarticulable believe that the lust object is also the angel, in whose presence all that is evil vanishes to nothing. This line runs directly back to the Beach Boys and so I think "Good Vibrations" is fine here, and I do think I've heard it on classic rock, more than anything else by them surely. It's a shame the format turned its backs on their 70s stuff; "Surf's Up" and "Sail On Sailor" would be kinda great leavening in the CR mix. If they'd been by other bands, maybe.

"Surf's Up" and "Sail On Sailor" would be kinda great leavening in the CR mix. If they'd been by other bands, maybe.

"sail on sailor" pretty much WAS by another band! they just forgot to change the band name.

reading DLR's autobio is transcendent

YES, Crazy From The Heat easily one of the best rock memoirs ever

my local classic rock radio has also in the past hour reminded me of what a fantastic song eddie money's "baby hold on" is.

YES. Love this one. Also very good for singing to an actual baby.

any beach boys, whether the early 60s hits or Pet Sounds or Carl running shit afterwards or whatever, has never been germane to the classic rock gestalt whatsoever. CR radio might as well play Phil Spector or MoTown if they fuck with the Beach Boys.

Status Quo has not one thing to do with classic rock radio as it has existed in the US, because no one in the US other than rock nerds know who they are. If the UK had classic rock radio, then they would be like Boston or Eddie Money or BOC. But that ain't the case. the Grateful Dead's CR tunes are "truckin" "Casey Jones" and "Friend of the Devil" and other songs I would cite were I not puking mu guts out.

Do you guys know who Jim Ladd is? He is or was a DJ for some LA radio station, and is like the most classic rock guy that's ever existed. He's a caricature.

I always forget that 'baby hold on' is Eddie Money

great song

"Baby Hold On" iirc has a kind of cool mellotron or something delivering a hook that caught my exotica inclined grade school ear.

I said UH

clap!

Hold on

clap!

UH

clap!

Hold on to me tight

<3

second thought, Status Quo is really like the Doobie Bros or Skynnyrd for the UK. maybe there were other UK bands like that, but 1977/year zero erased them from memory? Or do Foghat count as such? makes me think that Humble Pie were HUGE in the UK and U.S., boogie warlords, but their shit doesn't get played on CR radio.

"Cowboy Song"

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